The red flag : a history of communism /
Priestland, David.
The red flag : a history of communism / David Priestland. - New York : Grove Press, 2009. - xxvii, 675 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Classical crucible -- A German Prometheus -- Bronze horsemen -- Under western eyes -- Men of steel -- Popular fronts -- The east is red -- Empire -- Parricide -- Guerrillas -- Stasis -- High tide -- Twin revolutions -- Epilogue: Red, orange, green... and red?
Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany to its rise to dominance (and subsequent fall) in the twentieth century, and shows how Communism, in all its varieties, appealed to different societies for different reasons.
9780802119247 0802119247
2010280950
Communism--History.
Comunismo--Historia.
HX 36 / P949r 2009
335.4/09
The red flag : a history of communism / David Priestland. - New York : Grove Press, 2009. - xxvii, 675 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: Classical crucible -- A German Prometheus -- Bronze horsemen -- Under western eyes -- Men of steel -- Popular fronts -- The east is red -- Empire -- Parricide -- Guerrillas -- Stasis -- High tide -- Twin revolutions -- Epilogue: Red, orange, green... and red?
Oxford professor David Priestland tells the epic story of a movement that has taken root in dozens of countries across two hundred years, from its birth after the French Revolution to its ideological maturity in nineteenth-century Germany to its rise to dominance (and subsequent fall) in the twentieth century, and shows how Communism, in all its varieties, appealed to different societies for different reasons.
9780802119247 0802119247
2010280950
Communism--History.
Comunismo--Historia.
HX 36 / P949r 2009
335.4/09